The Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson

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MONEY / MINTING OF COINAGE

I should approve of your employing the Mint on small silver coins,
rather than on dollars and gold coins, as far as the consent of those
who employ it can be-obtained. It would be much more valuable to the
public to be supplied with abundance of dimes and half dimes, which
would stay among us, than with dollars and eagles which leave us
immediately.